Description
Three color 5 1/4″ x 12 1/2″ ad for the Bond Street Pipe Tobacco. The ad starts off with a drawing of a smiling man with a pipe in his mouth pointing to his pouch of Bond Street. Next to him stands a Turtle in a suit smoking his pipe with a sour look on his face and the headline asks if he is as “Slow As A Turtle – to change your blend?”. The ad then claims that “You’ll change fast – when you try the INDOOR TEST”. The text then tells us that “Quick as a rabbit you’ll find that smoking BOND STREET is smart in two ways. First, you get cool, bite-free mellow flavor usually found in expensive custom blends. Second, your pipe pleases everybody. Even wives “go” for BOND STREET…it leaves no stale pipe odors in the room. BOND STREET contains a rare aromatic tobacco never before used in any popular priced blend. So do yourself and your friends a favor. Light up mellow BOND STREET…today”. At the bottom of the ad there is a man pouring it out of the Pocket Package that costs only 15 cents.
Source: March 13, 1944 Life magazine.
